The British High Commission in Colombo is looking for a Tamil speaking political officer

By Dr. Tilak S Fernando 2016-06-13  Ceylon Today Gayathri lives in Dehiwala at her sister’s house, occupying the upper floor, since her husband deserted her. Her own personal story is long and tragic, but she has been leading an independent life ever since by sharing her sister’s accommodative house with her brother Prasanna. Prasanna suffered […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS The first three Presidents of Sri Lanka made no effort to win the war, though victory was possible.  J.R. Jayewardene halted the Vadamarachchi operation (1987) which would have permanently ended the LTTE offensive. .Premadasa handed over arms, ammunition, cement and cash to the LTTE. The LTTE used the ammunition and arms to kill […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  අවුරුදු  එක ලක්ෂ විසිපන්දාහක් තරම්  ඈතට  මගේ ජීවිත කතාව කියන්න තරම් දැන් නම් මට මතකයක් නැහැ මගෙම  දරුවෝ පරයන් එක්ක එකතුවෙලාමට දුන්නු වැඩ වේදනා නිසා හුඟක් දේවල් අමතකව ගිහින් උන් කැමතිවුනේ නැහැ මගේ අතීත විභූතිය සාඩම්බරකම  විදහා පෙන්වනවාට. ඉතින් උනේ අතීතය වල දැම්මා. ඒවා මගේ දරුවන්ටවත් කියාදෙන එකට තහංචි දැම්මා.  අතීතයේ හිටිය මගේ […]

Shenali D Waduge Prabakaran may have been leader of the LTTE but he was not the man collecting funds abroad to procure arms/ammunition, carry out propaganda and induce foreign players to promote Eelam ideology. That job was done by the LTTE fronts who were named, shamed and banned incorporating the UN Security Council Resolution 1373 […]

L.K.N.PERERA  ( LL,B  Cey ) Advocate,  Labour  Consultant, Ex Judicial  Officer. Ex President- Lanka  Academic  Association. Vice  President- Seruwila   Chaityawardena  Samithiya New  Constitution  and  the myth of  Eelam.                   Opposition  leader  Mr Sambandan’s  recent   justification  of  LTTE’s   struggle  to  form   an  Elam  State  and  the    unanimously passed  resolution  in the  Northern Provincial   Council  to  form   an autonomous  state […]

Shenali D Waduge Quite a number of countries are talking as paragons of virtue. Norway is one such nation. It is known as the West’s hitman and the word Quisling has become synonymous with ‘collaboration’ when Vidkum Quisling founded the fascist organization in 1933 modelling it after Germany’s Nazi party. The killings of Jews in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS After World War II ended in 1949, several countries got together to debate the issue of war. This gave them the opportunity to outlaw war and create agencies to settle future conflicts peacefully through negotiation. Instead of doing this, they ‘legalized’ warfare through the ‘Geneva conventions.’ Armies could shoot and kill each other […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග අරාලි තුඩුවට මා ගියේ 2005 වසරේදී වෛද්‍ය බළකායේ කපිතන්වරයෙකු සමගය​.  අරාලි තුඩුව ප්‍රකට ස්ථානයකි. කයිට්‌ස්‌හි අරාලි තුඩුවේදී ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ඩෙන්සිල් කොබ්බෑකඩුව මහතා ඇතුළු හමුදා නිලධාරීහු නව දෙනකු (මේජර් ජෙනරාල් විජය විමලරත්න, රියාර් අද්මිරාල් මොහාන් ජයමහ, කර්නල් ආරියරත්න, ඒ. පළිපහන, එම්. ආර්. ස්‌ටීවන්, අසංග ලංකාතිලක, සී. බී. විඡේපුර, එන්. එස්‌. අල්විස්‌ )  1992 අගෝස්‌තු 8 වැනිදා […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I had my education in  Moscow State University affiliated Institute of Petroleum with specialization in Exploration of Oil and Gas Fields and the exposure to Russian way of life has given me an insight of the Russian culture and thinking . There was corruption among the police ,but I do not call […]

By Dinyar Patel Historian, Courtesy BBC News, 11 June 2016 It has been a difficult summer for India this year. Drought and a searing heat wave have affected an astonishing 330 million people across the country. But this summer also marks the 150th anniversary of a far more terrible and catastrophic climatic event: the Orissa […]

GLOBAL SRI LANKAN FORUM Global Sri Lankan Forum, GSLF has commenced an On-line Petition” requesting Sri Lankan Government not to re-appoint the current Central Bank Governor, Mr. Arjun Mahendran due to his various malpractices and his alleged links with the LTTE Tamil terrorists in Sri Lanka and Globally. To read the Petition and sign it, open the […]

Sarath Wijesinghe Solicitor and Attorney- at –law- A former Secretary of the Bar Association  Salawa/ Kosgama Tragedy Slawa” is in a suburb with a mixture of a township and village in the famous and traditional Seethawaka” Kingdom in Sri Lanka on High Level Road not too far from Colombo the Capital. It is one of […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS Eelam War IV was won due to the dedication of those who participated in it. The commanders of the armed forces were confident of victory and, for the first time, the forces experienced a firm political commitment to win.  Their morale went up and they fought with great dedication.  Unlike in previous years, […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි සමස්ත ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ජනතාවම යලිත් වරක් තිගැස්මට පත්කල මහා විනාශයක් යලිදු සිදුවිය. කොස්ගම සාලාව යුද හමුදා කඳවුරේ ආයුධ ගබඩාව පුපුරා ගිය අතර, එම ස්ථානය වටා කිලෝමීටරයක පමන දුරකින් පිහිටි භූමියම සුන්බුන් බවට පත්විය. එමෙන්ම එහි බලපෑම ඊටත් වඩා බොහෝ දුරට යනතුරු දක්නට ලැබිනි. මේ සම්බන්ධව මාධ්‍ය තුලින් විවිධ අදහස් ගලා ගියේය.   රජයට […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න          ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපාරය පිළිබදව සිදුකරන ඕනෑම සංවාදයකදී ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ(ජවිපෙ) මඟහැර යා නොහැක. රෝහණ විජේවීර විසින්ම පොළොව කොටා, පස පෙරළා, බිජු වපුරා අරඹනු ලැබූ ජවිපෙ ගමන් කළේ වීජේවීරගේ දෘෂ්ටිය සහ දේශපාලනය තුළය. ජවිපෙ දේශපාලනය වන්නේ සමාජවාදී සමාජයක් ගොඩනැගීමය. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් ජවිපෙ කැරළි දෙකක් ගැසුවේය. විජේවීරගේ නායකත්වයෙන් බලය ලබාගැනීමට යෙදූ උපක්‍රම සහ එල්බගත් […]

  මහණෙනි යම් කලෙක රජවරු අධාර්මික වෙත්ද,එසමයෙහි රජුට අනුව කටයුතු කරන්නෝද අධාර්මික වෙති. රජුට අනුව කටයුතු කරන්න් අධාර්මික වූ කල්හි නිගම බ්‍රාහ්මණ ගෘහපතිවරු ද අධාර්මික වෙති. නිගම බ්‍රාහ්මණ ගෘහපතිවරු අධාර්මික වූ කල්හි නිගම ජනපදවාසීහූ ද අධාර්මික වෙති. නිගම ජනපදවාසීන් අධාර්මික වූ කල්හී හිරු සඳු දෙදෙන ද විෂමාකාරයෙන් පායයි. හිරු සඳු දෙදෙන විෂමාකාරයෙන් පායන කල්හී නැකැත් තරු ආදිය ද විෂමාකාරයෙන් […]

A Neighbour I write this snippet to clarify a newS item appeared today in Daily  Mirror today where it says that Colombo Municipal Council has taken arbitrary action to demolish 25 houses ? This land in extent of 2 acres does not have a single house today .There were over 30 unauthorized families living in […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  පුත්තලම දිස්ත්‍රික්  මානසික සෞඛ්‍යය  සම්බන්ධීකරණ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරී  ලෙස සේවය කරන කාලයේදී මම මානසික සෞඛ්‍යය දිනය සැමරීමට වැඩසටහනක් දියත් කලෙමි. මේ වැඩසටහන සඳහා පුත්තලම දිස්ත්‍රික්  පළාත් සෞඛ්‍යය සේවා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක වෛද්‍ය ආර් එම් එස් කේ රත්නායක මහතා මනා සහයෝගයක් දුන්නේය​. මෙම වැඩසටහනට ආරාධිතයන් ලෙස ආචාර්‍ය තිලෝක සුන්දරී කාරියවසම් මිය සහ මහාචාර්‍ය නාලක මෙන්ඩිස් […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Burma News International (BNI), while arguing that the media always works for humanitarian interest across the globe, urges the Myanmar government at NayPieTaw to review the case related to a senior journalist working for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and pardon Ko Nay Myo Lin. In a statement issued on 9 June […]

Shenali D Waduge The destruction of the Salawa ammunition factory is in reality a blessing in disguise. The fire struck the heart of our armed forces destroying items meant to protect the nation and its people. The armed forces are one of the key protectors of our country since ancient times. They have shed blood […]

Ramanie de Zoysa Sri Lanka is back in 2002- but only worse! In 2002, Ranil Wickremesinghe put on his tie and coat and posed for photographs with Prabhakaran in a safari jacket- to shake hands and hand over the lion’s share of the country to form an ethnically cleansed Tamil Eelaam. In 2016, the suit […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Retired High Court Judge Maxwell Paranagama, Chairman, Presidential Commission to Investigate Complaints Regarding Missing Persons yesterday told The Island that the Commission had received approximately 19,000 complaints in respect of disappeared civilians during sittings held in various parts of the country. The Commission dealt with missing persons cases since 1983. […]

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Ratanapala 10 Jun 2016 Muslim encroachment on land is going on a pace. Good example is the conversation,  two monks were having with a Muslim delegation over building of a mosque in front of the Dalada Maligawa. One is supposed to be the Mahanayake of the Malwatte Chapter of the Siyam Nikaya – one of […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Combatants Affected by the Prolonged War The 30 year armed conflict in Sri Lanka has produced a new generation of veterans at risk for the chronic mental health problems that resulted following prolonged exposure to the war. Over 200,000 members of the Sri Lanka armed forces and police had been […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island June 10, 2016, 9:11 pm The government is cock-a-hoop about defeating Thursday’s no-faith motion against Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake. It mustered 145 votes against the motion while the proponents thereof had to settle for only 51. Twenty eight MPs were absent including former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The government’s jubilation is understandable. It […]

Issued by Nava Thakuria, secretary, Guwahati Press Club Guwahati, 10 June: Journalist Nand Kishor Gupta, who died yesterday in Mumbai, was flown to the city today and paid last respect by the members of Guwahati Press Club before his creation. Gupta, 46, breathed his last at Mumbai airport around 3.10 pm on Thursday on his […]

Ruwan Laknath Jayakody  Courtesy The Nation The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has charged that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) and its Governor, Arjuna Mahendran were refusing to provide information pertaining to all Treasury Bond issues from 2015, concerning which a special investigation is being conducted. Chairman of the COPE, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna […]

Courtesy The Nation The economic academia explained that the individual holding the post of the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) should not hold dual citizenship status and should not have conflicts of interest. Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Art of the University of Colombo, Dr. […]